Power-transferring apparatus



(No Modem I C.MOYER.. POWER; TRANSFERRING APPARATUS No. 541,565.Patented June 25, 1895.

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UNITED ST TES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES MOYER, O F MIDDLE LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA.

POWE R-TRANSFERRI NG APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 541,565, dated June25, 1895.

Application filed time 8.1894.

To all-whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES MOYER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Middle Lancaster, in the county of Butler and State ofPennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful ImprovementsinApparatus for Transferring Power; and I do hereby declare a thefollowing to bea full, clear, and exact description of the invention,such aswill enable to others skilled in the art to which it pertains tomake and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to an improved device 5 for transferring power,having for its object more particularly to adapt a power transferringdevice to transmit power in any required direction according to therelative position or location of themachinery to be driven, and to thisend it consists of the detailed combination and arrangement of parts,substantially as hereinafter more fully disclosed and pointed out in theclaim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figurel is a plan view of my improvedapparatus, which is constructed and arranged in accordance with myinvention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same, a part of which isshown in section. Fig. 3 is a sectional side elevation 0 through aportion of the annular clamp, showing the manner in which theshaft-bearings are secured.

To put my invention into practice I provide a frame 1 of a suitable sizeand form of 5 construction, and mount therein a shaft 6 provided with apulley 5 and gear wheel 4. This gear wheel 4 meshes with another 3attached to a shaft 2, arranged in a vertical position in suitablebearings 7 at the top and bottom of the frame 1.

Attached .to the top of the frame 1 is an annular clamp 9 formed with aninner recess 10 and annular opening or slot 11. Mounted upon the clamp9, are two bearings 12, sup- Serial No. 513,881. (No model.)

porting the shaft 15, provided with abeveled 5 gear 16, meshing with alarger, similar gear 8, carried at the upper end of the shaft 2. Thebearings 12, are movably held upon the clamp 9, by plates 13, arrangedin the recess 10,of said clamp, and having integral therewith bolts 14,projecting up through the circular opening or slot 11 in said clamp andprovided with nuts bearing upon said clamp.

Connected to the shaft 15 is a pulley by means of which the powerapplied to the pulley 5 may be transmitted bya belt to another apparatuslocated at any point either in line with the pulley 5 or at any anglethereto, thus avoiding shifting the relative position of the said parts.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to'secureby Letters Patout, is-

The combination of the annular clamp having a circular recess and asimilar slot or opening communicating with said recess, movable bearingsmounted upon said clamp, the plates arranged in said recess, and havingbolts projecting up through said slot and said bearings and fitted withnuts above said bearings, a vertical shaft having its upper end providedwith a beveled gear-wheel above the plane of said clamp, and its lowerend also provided with a beveled gear-wheel, a horizontal pulley shaftjournaled in said bearings and having a beveled pinion meshingwith theupper gear-wheel, and a second horizontal pulley shaft having also abeveled gear-wheel meshing with the lower gear-wheel of said verticalshaft, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoingl hereunto affix my signaturethis 8th day of March, A. D. 1894..

CHARLES MOYER. [n 8.]

" In presence of- Ms. J. MOAFEE, E. HARRISON.

